Today, on June 26 2013, the Steam Trading Cards System has been officially released. Thath means, from today on, all users have a new Steam profile and the possibilty of collecting, trading and crafting Steam Trading Cards.

After Valve's convertion of the older Source game DoD:S, HL2:DM und CS:S to the new SteamPipe System, Team Fortress 2 is the next candidate. But what is this new system and what are the advantages for the users?